48 Vegetable Statich. 



The Jeflamine in the fame time the * part. 



The Philarea decreafed the ^'part in five 

 days. 



The Laurel the \ part in 5 days, and more. 



Here is a confiderable daily wafte of fap, 

 which mull therefore neceffarily be fupplied 

 from the root ; whence it Is plain, that fome 

 fap rifes all the winter, to fupply this con- 

 tinual wafte, tho' in much lefs quantity than 

 in fummer. 



Hence we fee good reafon why the Ilex 

 and the Cedar of Lib anus (which were graft- 

 ed the firft on an Englijh Oak, the other on the 

 Larix) were verdant all the winter, notwith- 

 ftanding the Oak and Larix leaves' were de- 

 cayed and fallen off; for tho', when the win- 

 ter came on, there did not fap enough rife 

 to maintain the Oak and Larix leaves, yet by 

 this prefent experiment we fee, that fome 

 fap is continually rifing all the winter ; and 

 by experiment the 5th on the Limon-tree, 

 and by feveral other the like experiments, on 

 many forts of ever-greens, we find that they 

 perfpiring little, live and thrive with little 

 nourifhrnent; the Ilex and Cedar might 

 well therefore continue green all the win- 

 ter, notwithstanding the leaves of the trees 



they 



